This found me at a very bare mattress time of my life
this post was submitted on 30 Oct 2025
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The discomfort I feel at the thought of sleeping on a bare matress ensures that I will put the sheet on. Of course, only just before going to sleep when I want to do nothing more but flop onto my bed after staying up too long again
Nothing I love more than coming upstairs after my day of chores, exhausted, to find a ball of sheets on my bed. THANKS earlier me.
And earlier me is like "have fun, future me who will be very unhappy about this :D"
Own more than one set? I have 3 so I can just swap it out and afford to forget to wash the other one for a week
Fucking Richie Rich over here with 3 sets of sheets. Next thing you know we'll be eating 3 meals each day, too!
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Or...now hear me out...get a 2nd set of sheets. Straight swap. One on...one off. Then you can forget about the "off" set, until it's time to change the sheets again.
I was already assuming they did have a second set. Taking off the dirty ones and putting on the clean ones is bloody well hard enough. Are people out there really trying to turn around a single set in a day? That's just setting yourself up to fail, I don't care how neurotypical you think you are.
Wait, there are people who only one set of sheets? To me it sounds like having one set of clothes
I have seen this before it's US americans, they all have dryers and can wash and dry in the same day.
I would never, I have sheet that are cozier for winter etc, also I dry on a clothesline
I also have a dryer, but I have like 3 or 4 sets of sheets. They don't have to buy the fancy ones, just buy the $30 set from IKEA.
It's more like having only one pair of shoes. There isn't usually a compelling reason to change them frequently, so you only need one.
I now have dirty sheets and damp sheets that have been in the dryer for a week.
What now?
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Instructions unclear; all bedsheets are now dirty and I've been sleeping on a bare ass mattress for a month.
I caught this, too. If I forget about them until the next set is dirty...
Oh that IS what she meant? she really has only one set of sheets? I was having trouble working out how this was ever a problem for her.
have two sheets, put the new one on right after taking the old one off. put the old one in the laundry pile and wash it with your clothes.
Yup, except wash them separate so you can use warm water and not ruin cloths. Unless you're lucky enough to have durable cloths from 10 years ago. And wash them right away, or you'll end up in the no-sheet situation anyway.
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Then I'd have to learn the black magic that is folding a fitted sheet AND actually fold them every time I change my bed/wash the old set.
Can't just leave clean laundry in a pile either... That's just going to bother me; are they clean or not? If it's clean, it's gotta be put away neatly, but It's gonna have to stay in the dryer until I work up that kind of courage.
Nope, just gonna fight myself to put them back on the bed once they're clean...
For the fitted sheet, what I do is roll it up instead of folding, then shove it inside the matching pillowcase. When it's time to change sheets it makes it super easy to grab and have the whole fresh set, no fussing around.
Now, actually putting them ON the bed? Still can be a struggle lol
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Emphatically wrong! Sleeping on a bare mattress is crazy. I just use the couch like I do many nights anyway.
And the overwhelming urge to take a nap before the dryer is done rocking.
I eventually got a second bed set just to help me out on that front
But unfortunately they've got a different thread count so they have a different skin feel then the old ones so I absolutely can't mix the sheets with the other ones because the difference is too jarring
Put the old sheet in the doorway. Now you can't leave the room until you are done because the doorway is blocked.
JRPG rules FTW!
I did the sheets and have been able to leave my house, thanks, but now I can't leave my town because there's a single small shrub blocking the only path. Any ideas?
You need to progress the global warming subplot so that the shrub will wither and you can pass.
See if there's a quest involving the river and a boat.
I tell my spouse I can change the sheets in seconds, and pre-swap the sheets to accomplish it. This makes it a “fun” thing, that my brain is more than happy to focus on because it’s “fun”. It also happens with just the right frequency that it doesn’t become boring.
However, if my spouse ever found out the trick (or told me they did) the magic would be lost.
I don't really get what you mean by preswapping, like you changed the sheets on a spare duvet and just swapped out the entire duvet, but then what about the sheets on the mattress? Or do you just mean you do the entire task of changing the bedsheets unobserved and then tell your wife you're about to change them and announce that you've finished a few seconds later?
Pretty much the second.
Alright that’s fucking hilarious
I have two sets of sheets. Adapt and overcome.
Have two beds. Clean and remake one when sleeping on the other. Don't switch until other one is clean.
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This is why we have two sets and I have a day just for doing the sheets. Sheets off, pillows off, into washing machine, grab the clean sheets from the pile. Sheets do not get folded, that's a nightmare. There's just a pile of clean clothes. And the sheets. There's also like fifty pillow covers they just accumulated somehow.
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Thank you for seeing me.
I find it best to do it as a side-to-do from the main one to minimise the chance of even getting focused on it (the tricky part of that is being ok/not get discouraged with letting the sheets sit in the washer or dryer for hours bcs now the process is inefficient & I can do better, I mean I obviously can't, but theoretically).
I also have a few extra beddings to "just change the sheets" or even just to focus my mind on different materials. It helps sometimes.
I've been sleeping on a blanket for a while now, come to think of it...
This is why you find a partner who can compensate for your dysfunction.
I'm going to do it but only because I want to and not because you called me out
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